Quotes about Accountability
None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.
— Mark Cuban
Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.
— Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.
— Marcus Aurelius
He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
— Marcus Aurelius
He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only who does a certain thing.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
— Marcus Aurelius
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one.
— Marcus Aurelius
Sorry solves nothing.
— Margaret Atwood
It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.
— Margaret Atwood
What confronts us, now the excitement's over, is our own failure.
— Margaret Atwood
This is a pattern humankind has repeated many times over the course of its history. When there is a crisis, whether real or imagined, culprits—whether real or imagined—must be found and eliminated.
— Margaret Atwood
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
— Theodore Roosevelt